Journal profile · MANAGEMENT
Human Systems Management
ISSN 0167-2533 · eISSN 1875-8703 · SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press)
Human Systems Management: CAS Zone 4 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.6 (journal website); subscription journal; APC about USD 3,650; 84 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Human Systems Management is published by SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press) and is in Zone 4 of Management in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Complex Systems and Decision Making, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior and Innovation and Knowledge Management, together about 29.2% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Research area (LetPub): MANAGEMENT
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Complex Systems and Decision MakingDecision Sciences10.8%
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorBusiness, Management and Accounting9.7%
- Innovation and Knowledge ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting8.7%
- Technology Adoption and User BehaviourDecision Sciences6.7%
- Quality and Supply ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting4.6%
- Knowledge Management and SharingSocial Sciences4.6%
- Business Strategy and InnovationBusiness, Management and Accounting4.4%
- Organizational and Employee PerformanceComputer Science3.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.6Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 1.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.2LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.36LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.53LetPub ·
- h-index
- 52OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 470OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.81OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 18.8%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0.88%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 103LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,793 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 78 | 5 | 8 |
| 2025 | 84 | 3 | 275 |
| 2024 | 75 | 8 | 382 |
| 2023 | 56 | 23 | 359 |
| 2022 | 50 | 13 | 324 |
| 2021 | 55 | 18 | 541 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 1 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,650 / GBP 2,676 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted11, with length limits
- article commentaryArticle Commentary: a work commenting on an already published article in HSM (up to 2000 words).Length not stated
- book reviewOriginal Research Article: article reporting on empirical research (up to 8000 words including references). This type of article should contain structured abstr…Length not stated
- case reportOriginal Research Article: article reporting on empirical research (up to 8000 words including references). This type of article should contain structured abstr…main text ≤ 4,500 words
- commentaryOriginal Research Article: article reporting on empirical research (up to 8000 words including references). This type of article should contain structured abstr…main text ≤ 2,000 words
- editorialOriginal Research Article: article reporting on empirical research (up to 8000 words including references). This type of article should contain structured abstr…Length not stated
- opinionOriginal Research Article: article reporting on empirical research (up to 8000 words including references). This type of article should contain structured abstr…Length not stated
- original research articleOriginal Research Article: article reporting on empirical research (up to 8000 words including references). This type of article should contain structured abstr…main text ≤ 8,000 words
- original review articleOriginal Review Article: review or state-of-the-art summary article (up to 8000 words including references).Length not stated
- reviewOriginal Research Article: article reporting on empirical research (up to 8000 words including references). This type of article should contain structured abstr…main text ≤ 2,000 words
- review articleOriginal Research Article: article reporting on empirical research (up to 8000 words including references). This type of article should contain structured abstr…Length not stated
- short communicationOriginal Research Article: article reporting on empirical research (up to 8000 words including references). This type of article should contain structured abstr…main text ≤ 2,000 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Figures submitted in color will be published in color in the online version of the journal at no cost. Color figures can be included in the print version, provided the cost of their reproduction is paid for by the author. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice program, and Open Access agreements, wh…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Single anonymized peer review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency:Single-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk reject…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press)
- ISSN
- 0167-2533
- Electronic ISSN
- 1875-8703
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Human Systems Management
What CAS zone is Human Systems Management in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Human Systems Management is in Zone 4 of Management, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Management. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Human Systems Management?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.6; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 3.2, h-index 52.
Which databases index Human Systems Management?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Human Systems Management is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Human Systems Management open access, and what is the APC?
Human Systems Management is a subscription journal. APC about USD 3,650.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-30). Last updated: .